Re: GIMP/SANE PERMISSIONS

Bob van der Poel (bvdpoel@uniserve.com)
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:27:58 +0000

PAILOTT@aol.com wrote:
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> I had the same problem. I changed the permission of sg devices, and after the scanner appears in the device dialog box under xtns menu. I doesn't seem to appear in the xtns itself though. Don't know why. Still it is there and usable, so who cares. Try it...

Is changing the permissions on the sg device the best way to go,
especially since that gives everyone write permission to a scsi device?
If you're sure that it will always be the scanner then I guess it's
okay....

What I did was to make xsane SUID. This leaves it's own problems....

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